Some rather worrying news for you today as executive producer, Glen Morgan, has left the show - citing creative differences as the reason for his departure.
What creative differences? That’s what I want to know. Should we, the fans, be concerned by his departure?
In a statement, NBC said:
“Glen Morgan has helped create a great template for ‘Bionic Woman’ but has decided to pursue other endeavors now,”
This isn’t exactly much to go on, it’s just the usual stuff people say when they part projects. The thing which worries me is that Glen Morgan gave the show alot of credibility due to his connections with ‘X-Files’ – his presence also gave me piece of mind that the project is in more than safe hands. Whilst it’s good that Eick and Smilovic are still in the hot-seat, i’m left wondering what the conflict was? What aspect of the show did they not see eye to eye on? Afterall, it must be a pretty big disagreement for Morgan to completely leave the show..especially at this stage.
Whilst I trust David Eick’s vision and undoubted enthusiasm for the show, I really do hope it is as ‘Bionic’ as the title suggests, otherwise we could run into problems. This is the sort of thing the show didn’t need..it hasn’t even been fitted with Bionic parts yet!
There is some irony in his departure, as it comes just days after an IGN Interview with Jason Smilovic, in which he commented on the teamwork between the 3 producers..which in retrospect perhaps hinted at Morgan’s departure. See what you think:
IGN TV: How is this division of labor between producers working?Smilovic: David Eick, Glen Morgan and myself are the three executive producers and we’re going to juggle LA and Vancouver and figure it out.IGN TV: Now that’s quite a team. It seems any one of you could run a show, and yet here you have the three of you.Smilovic: We’ve just been figuring it out as the work load develops and things come our way and we see who’s naturally good at handling each various element and we each go from there.
IGN TV: And Glen Morgan came on later?
Smilovic: After the pilot, yes.
IGN TV: Will he be directing a number of episodes?
Smilovic: Glen is not directing right now. We have to break stories and figure it out. We’ve just broken the first twelve and now we have to work on getting all of the scripts executed and work on the outlines. There’s breaking, re-breaking, finding tentpoles and arcs and things of that nature.
Anyway, I guess we have to look to the future, the show is still going on as planned and they’re currently shooting the 5th episode!
Bionic Woman Premieres on September 26, 9/8c on NBC. You can also view the Pilot earlier through Amazon Unbox and Bright House.
In other news, I have just updated the spoilers section with news of TWO more episode titles! Check it out (if you want to know). Credit to Alan P for the tip.
